The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 76

No sooner had the messengers reached the city than they stole out at night and buried a pot of gold far down in the earth, and let down another into the bed of the Tiber, just where a bridge spans the river.

Who acts: messengers, people, bridge · What happens: reach, steal out, bury, let down, span · To what, where: city, pot, earth, another, bed, river

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messengers, people, bridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 reached	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 messengers	det
5	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 stole	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stole	nsubj
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 stole	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stole	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 buried	cc
16	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pot	det
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buried	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pot	nmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 down	advmod
22	down	down	ADV	_	16 buried	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 earth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 let	compound:prt
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 let	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 bed	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bed	det
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 let	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Tiber	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Tiber	det
36	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 bed	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spans	punct
38	just	just	ADV	_	42 spans	advmod
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 spans	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bridge	det
41	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spans	nsubj
42	spans	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 let	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 river	det
44	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spans	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the messengers	the city			soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	steal out	past	people			night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bury	past	the messengers not said here	a pot of gold	the earth		down property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme in earth=Destination
4	let down	infinitive		another	the bed of the Tiber			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme
5	span	present	a bridge	the river				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Co-Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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